Ireland must stand up for justice

TOMORROW, Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Laureate and freewoman of Dublin will have spent a total of nine years in detention in Burma since 1989.

Ireland must stand up for justice

This is in spite of the fact that she and her political party, the National League for Democracy, were elected to power by the people of Burma in 1990 in a landslide victory.

Fourteen years on, the world not only continues to tolerate the military regime that governs Burma, but recently the EU has gone so far as to accept the participation of Burma in ASEM - the Asia-Europe meeting.

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